Productivity Essentials with Office 365

This course is a blended course; it includes a rigorous online pre-work with short tutorials on basic skills and techniques in Office 365. We then run a 3 days classroom session with lots of simulation exercises focused on productivity and time saving for working as teams and individually. You also have permanent online support after the course via the courses online portal.

This course teaches you the most productive features and techniques of the latest version of Office 365 (with emphasis on Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams). You can expect hours of time savings each day by using these techniques.

Overview

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

Ÿ effectively utilize similar features across the office suite: shapes, tables, pictures, SmartArt

Microsoft Office is the most used productivity tool in the world. Office 365 is the subscription based product from Microsoft that allows for monthly updates and whole lot of cloud based functionality that makes working as teams super productive.

Learning Outcomes

Ÿ Interpret exactly how the Excel engine works and use this knowledge to proffer solutions to various case study based exercises in class

Ÿ apply the most productive Automation features available in Word to cut down document creation and editing time

Ÿ organize and manage email productively with Outlook

Ÿ identify and practice best practices for handling the most common analysis challenges in Excel

Ÿ Understand the best scenarios to use Microsoft Teams to stay organized and build effective team collaboration tools

Ÿ build engaging presentations by harnessing storytelling tools in PowerPoint

Ÿ practice the basic features of Office 365 via an eLearning platform

Ÿ Recall our top 5 productivity tips for the latest version the major applications in the Office 365 suite.

Ÿ implement advanced rules and automations in Outlook

Ÿ link Excel, Word and Outlook to automate mail merge and bulk document processing

Ÿ engage your audiences by applying our productive structured approach to preparing presentations

2 weeks Online Pre-Work | 3 Days Classroom | Digital Certificate

Online Pre-work

Ÿ Use the platform to document and discuss your expectations with colleagues and your instructor

Ÿ you will be given access to this course's online pre-work platform on www.officetraininghub.com where you are required to complete all activities before attending the classroom sessions.

Ÿ The platform features short videos that cover basic knowledge and skills in using Office 365. This is critical to prepare you for the classroom section of this course.

Ÿ You will have lifetime access to this platform so you can always ask for help after the course, you will also gain access to your digital certificate of completion from the platform

Online Prework Agenda Summary

Ÿ Word Essentials

Ÿ Get Organised with Outlook Calendar

Ÿ Getting Started with Office 365

Ÿ PowerPoint Essentials

You have over 100 short videos and text content to cover in this prework. You will gain access to it 2 weeks before the course and will have continued access to the platform after the course. Make sure you complete it and also download the exercise files you will be using in Class. Here are the chapters you will be covering.

Ÿ Office 365 Basics

Ÿ Outlook Essentials

Ÿ Shortcuts Cheat sheets and guides

Ÿ Excel Essentials

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Email: training@dbrownconsulting.net

Phone: 0700TRAINING (070087246464)

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The dbrown team made assimilating the volume of knowledge so easy! The competitive streak method used also made me eager to learn and perform better. The trainer's sense of humor also kept the class lively. Overall, I couldn't have learnt the office 365 tools better from anywhere else.

Ÿ Listening to mails

Ÿ The Best of Use of “Subject”

Ÿ Creating Simple Automation RulesŸ Creating Advanced Automation Rules

Top 5 Outlook Tips

Automating tasks with Rules and Folder

Ÿ Overview of Calendar in outlook

Ÿ Creating Folders

Email Etiquette

Microsoft Outlook

Ÿ Reply/Reply all syndrome, how to use To/Cc/BCc properly

Ÿ Grammar & Spelling

Ÿ Email Recall

Ÿ Scheduling email (Delay Delivery)

Ÿ Adding holiday calendar to Outlook Calendar

Ÿ Getting organized and productive in Outlook

Managing Appointments & To Dos

Ÿ Getting organized with Groups

Ÿ Managing and delegating task

Microsoft Word

Ÿ Introducing the Outline Tab

Ÿ Highlight of the most productive new feature in Outlook

Ÿ Typing in Outline View

Ÿ Most Productive Outlook Shortcuts

Ÿ Working with and modifying StylesŸ Page Formatting & Numbering

Ÿ Cover page

Automating your Documents with Fields

Ÿ Inserting PicturesŸ Mastering Fields

Ÿ Dates and Charts in Word

Planning a Report with outline view

Working with Large DocumentsŸ Breaking up Large Documents with Outline

View

Ÿ Introducing Fields

Ÿ How to automate Collaboration with Large Documents

Ÿ How to Consolidate different sections/chapters of a large document

Ÿ Running Polls from Outlook

Top 5 Word Tips

Ÿ Using Dictation

Ÿ Use of the “Tell me Assistant”

Ÿ Most Productive Outlook Shortcuts Ÿ Highlight of the most productive new feature

in Word

Ÿ Using Templates

Ÿ Controlling the look and feel of your

presentation with slides master,

Microsoft PowerPoint

Maximize Efficiency with the Slide Master

Storytelling tips using PowerPoint

Ÿ Telling Stories with Smart art and shapes

(cropping, merging, formatting)

Ÿ How to rehearse a presentation with speaker

notes

Ÿ Creating and Changing slides layout, filters

Ÿ Most Productive Outlook Shortcuts

Ÿ Creating presentation from scratch using

Outline View

Harnessing Artificial Intelligence & other tools

to build your Presentation

Ÿ Maximize the use of Design Ideas

Ÿ Making use of tables, best practice for picture

insert, how to insert tables, adding shapes

diagram and chats

Ÿ Storytelling with Morph Transition features

Ÿ Using Morph Command with Texts and

Pictures

Ÿ Introducing the Pecha Kucha Presentation

Style

Ÿ How to deliver an engaging presentation in

less than 7 minutes

Ÿ Using Slide Master to build custom Layouts

Ÿ Creating Sections, Changing Themes

Ÿ How to tell stories with shapes

Ÿ Adding headers and footers,

Ÿ Working with text animations photos videos

audio and multimedia

Ÿ using Video, Audio, Text, Voice recording to

create engaging presentations

Top 5 tips in PowerPoint

Ÿ Professional picture editing techniques

Ÿ Build your slides by uploading a Microsoft

Word document

Secrets of How Excel Works

Ÿ A short history lesson of Excel

Ÿ Customizing Excel to work for you using Excel

Option & Quick access Tool bar

Ÿ Highlight of the most productive new feature

in PowerPoint

Ÿ Introducing the New Calculation Engine and

Dynamic Arrays

Ÿ Introducing Excel Interface and Navigation

Ÿ Understanding how Functions work in Excel

Microsoft Excel

Ÿ Using Flash Fill to automate text manipulations

Ÿ Messages on Teams

Ÿ Setup Teams for the first time

Ÿ Chats and sharing of files

Ÿ Tag People in Teams

Messaging and Files

Ÿ Phone calls and Video calls

Ÿ Sharing with Team Members

Ÿ Joining an existing Team

Top 5 Teams Productivity Tips

Ÿ Most Productive Teams Shortcuts

Ÿ Overview of the Teams interface

Ÿ Set your status messages

Ÿ Adding connectors to Teams

Ÿ Emails via Teams

Ÿ Change themes

Ÿ Bookmark messages

Ÿ Editing of files with Team Members

Ÿ Create a new document from scratch with

Microsoft Teams

Setting Up Teams

Collaboration with Microsoft Teams

Working with Teams

Ÿ Creating teams and adding Team members

Ÿ Best practice for managing Channels

Collaborations

Ÿ Using Wikis

Ÿ Creating Memes

Ÿ Highlight of the most productive new feature

in Teams

Ÿ The 4 ways to build reports in Excel

Ÿ Tips for automating data updates

Top 5 Excel Productivity Tips

Ÿ The 7 Golden Rules of Data

Ÿ Highlight of the most productive new feature

in Excel

Report Automation in Excel

Ÿ Report Automation in Excel

Ÿ Why you only need 3 Sheets to automate all

your reports

Ÿ How to control the way users use your reports

Ÿ Building a Quick Dashboard with Pivot Tables

& Charts

Ÿ Working in groups with Excel Online

Ÿ Top features of XLOOKUP

Ÿ Using the Ideas Artificial Intelligence feature

Ÿ Most Productive Excel Shortcuts

DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3

UK Office:

17 Hanover SquareMayfair, LondonUnited KingdomW1S 1BN

t: +44 (0) 203 900 8900

Training Centre:

70A Adeyemo Akapo StreetOmole Phase 1, AgidingbiIkeja, LagosNigeria

t: 0700TRAINING (070087246464)

NG Office:

3rd Floor, Africa Re House Plot 1679, Karimu Kotun StreetVictoria IslandLagos, Nigeria

t: +234 701 375 0888© 2019 dbrownconsulting, All rights reserved.

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Productivity Essentials with Office 365